Buck for clothes-pressing machines



1,695,760 J. H. ELLIS BUCK FOR CLOTHES .PRESSING MA CHINES Filed Dec. 11. 1926 l N V E N To R tjkiz/ Fer/aerZZZ/z ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 18, 1928.

UNITED S TATES' PATENT oFrIcE.

7 JOHN HERBERT ELLIS, or VANCOUVER, BRI'rIsnooLUMBIA, CANADA: I V

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. Application filed December 11, 1926; Serial No. 154,173.

The invention consists essentially of the novel arrangement and construction ofparts,

wherein the buck of a clothes'pressing machine is divided into aplurality of individual chambers, an equal number of pipes connect-' ing the individual, chambers, respectively with a main pipe, whereby steam may be fed to aforesaid chambers or vacuum withdrawn therefrom, valve means controlling the respective operations, clamp means being proe vided to prevent, when steaming plush, vel vet, or the like, the creeping of steam along I the surface of the buck.

The objects of the inventlon are to construct a buck, for clothes pressing machines, wherein'all or a portion only of the buck may be used with equal efficiency for the steaming and pressing of clothes.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view with a portion I portion broken away.

:Figure 3 is a detail view of means employed to prevent creeping of steam along surface] of buck.

In the drawings:

Like numerals of sponding parts in each figure. v

1 represents a buck as used on clothes pressing machines, the said buck comprising a steam chamber 2' for heating the said buck, chambers 3-4--5, andperforated top plate 6, (glaze said buck being mounted on a stand ar 1 In present construction the vacuum chamber of the buck 1,.extends approximately the entire length and breadth of the plate 6, and has been found that when onlya portion of:

required, and when pressing the vacuum is exhausted from the entlresurface,whereas if the respective operations were concentrated upon the end A full efficiency would result.

To overcome the above mentioned loss in efiireference indicate correciency, I provide a plurality' of steam' or vacuumchambers 3+5, each of saidcham bers being separate ndlvldual units, having pipes 89.-10: connecting the said chambers with a main pipe 11, whereby steam may be admitted to said chambers, or permit of vacuum suction therefrom. It might here be mentloned that in the present constructlon of bucks a vacuum tank 1s provided havingcommunication with the main pipe 11, the said main pipe 11 havingsuitable valve means,

controlling therespective operations, and the. I

pipes 89.-10 carrying valves 1213 14;

which control the aforesaidoperations with laid upon this portion, which would also be over the chamber 5, the buck .1 having first been heated by'means of'steam fed through the pipe 15 into the steam chamber2, the

valve controlling theinlet of steam to the main pipell is opened and valves 12-13 re maining closed, the'valve 14: is opened and steam admitted to the chamber 5 from whence it will flow through the perforated plate 6 through the garment, thereby steaming the said garment; when only one or two of the chambers are being used it will be understood that padding is placed over the perforated surface of the buck upon which the garment is placedwhen steaming or pressing and it will befound that steam passing into any one over the buck 1 parallel with the divisions of y the chambers, and clamped down, whereby the creeping ofthe steam alongthe buck surface through the padding aforesaid from the working chamber to the non-working chambers will be prevented, thus eliminating waste of steam, while concentrating all the admitted steam through a predetermined area, resulting in great ehiciency in the steaming of a, garment. I j a 1 Having now steamed the garment, I then turn'the control valve on the main 11 to a point-where the steam is shut off, and the vacuum suction put into action, whereby the said suction is drawn from a predetermined area with full efficiency, for the purpose of Withdrawal of all surplus steam, at the same time drying the garment quickly.

It will be readily understood that if more area of the buck is desired, it is only necessary to open valve 13 in conjunction with valve 14, or if all the buck is required then all valves, 121314 would be opened whereby steam is admitted to, or vacuum suction obtained, respectively, over all or a greaterportion of the buck 1. l

,The aforementioned steam and vacuum ac tuating operations beingoi standard practice and well-known in the present construction of pressing'machines for which I do not wish to make claim, tomake same clear, I provide a steam pipe 17 having a control valve 18 and a vacuum Withdrawal pipe 19 having a control valve 20 connecting with the pipe 11 on oneendand with the steam and vacuum tank respectively at the other end whereby the closing of the valve 20 and opening of the valve 18 will permit of steam passingto the main pipe 11 to the desired chamber or chambers through the control valves 12, 18 and 14:

a fluid throughv any one ofrsaid' compartas aforesaid or by the closing of the valve18 and opening thevalve 2O vacuum withdrawal may be vobtained from any of the desired chambers aforesaid, through the control valves 12,13 and 14.

By my'construction" it will be seen that l have increased the eiiiciency of the buck as at present in use, both for steaming and pressin at small cost Whereb" all or, onl a preca y a y buck into compartments, means for passing ments, a paddingon said plate and ne'ans parallel to a dividing wall and-directlythereover adapted ,to clamp the padding to the plate to prevent the spread offiuid from one compartment to another.

26th November 1926; I

JOHN HERBERT 

